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Naomi Wolf Quotes

Naomi Wolf quotes about beautiful

American Author November 12, 1962

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The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill. Naomi Wolf
Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be "beautiful" to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both "beautiful" and "sexual" constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "As women demanded access to power, the power structure used..."
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. Naomi Wolf
Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue. Naomi Wolf
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women. Naomi Wolf
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through..."
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. Naomi Wolf
She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac: the self-critical sexual gaze. Alice Walker's essay "Coming Apart" investigates the damage done: Comparing herself to her lover's pornography, her heroine "foolishly" decides that she is not beautiful. Naomi Wolf
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. Naomi Wolf
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. Naomi Wolf
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has..."
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession..."
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf quote: "The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and..."
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. Naomi Wolf

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